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VOL. 2 
“A MAN'SEA MAN FOR A‘ THAT." 


Is there, for honest poverty that hangs his 
head, and a’ that ? 

The[coward-slave, we pass him by—We 
dare be poor for a’ that, 

For a’ that, and a’ that, Our toils obscure, 
and a’ that, 

The rank is but the guinea’s stamp—The 
man’s the gowd for a’ that. 


What though on hamely fare we dine— 
Wear hodden grey, and a’ that ? 

Cie fools their silks, and knaves their 
wine—A man’s a man, for a’ that; 
For a’ that, and a’ that, Their tinsel show, 

and a’ that; 
The Honest Man, though e’er sae poor, Is 
King o’ man for a’ that. 


Ye see yon birkie ca’d a lord, Wha struts, 
and stares, and a’ that; 

Though hundreds worship at his word, He’s 
but a coof for a’ that; 

For a’ that, and a’ that, His riband, star, 
and a’ that, 

The man of independent mind, He looks 
and laughs at a’ that. 


a A prince can mak’ a belted knight, A 
marquis, duke, and a’ that: 
But an honest man’s aboon his might, 
Gude faith he mauna fa’ that; 
For a’ that, and a’ that, Their dignities, 
and a’ that; 
he pith o’ sense, and pride o’ worth, are 
higher rank than a’ that. 


Then let us pray that come it may, As 
come it will for a’ that. 

hat sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth, 
May bear the gree and a ’ that; 

For Hera and a’ that, It’s coming yet for 
a ? 

That man to man, the world o'er, Shall 
brothers be for a’ that. 

—Rossig BURNS 
* * * 


All things are thine estate; yet must 
Ando tt display the title deeds, 
sue the world. Be strong; and trust 
igh instincts more than all the erceds.” 
—Lorp LyYTron. 


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““He who thinketh himself something 
when he is nothing deceiveth himself.’ 
—StT. PAUL. 


‘‘Judge not that ye be not judged, for 
with that judgment ye judge ye shall be 
judged, and with what measure ye mete 
it shall be measured to you again.” 

—JESUS. 


‘‘Suffer the little children to come unto 
me and forbid them not, for of such is 
the Kingdom of Heaven.” 

—JESUS. 


Jesus says: ‘If a man take away thy 
coat, let him have thy cloak also.’ 


‘Take heed that ye do not your alms 
before men to be seen of them, otherwise 
ye have no reward of your Father which 
is in Heaven.” —JESUS. 


“But the publican stood afar off and 
lifted up not so much as his eyes to Heaven, 
but smote upon his breast and cried, ‘God 
be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you 
that this man went to his house justified 


rather than the other.” —JESUS. 
‘‘Blessed are the merciful, for they 
shall obtain mercy.” —JESUS. 


“The wind bloweth where 


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“You can buy preachers like that in 
hell for ten cents a dozen.” 


—FRENCI! TULIVER. 


‘““Take your dirty carcass out of here.’ 
—FRENCH OLIVER. 


“These men will wake up five hundred 
fathoms deep in hell.” 
—FRENCH OLIVER. 


When the Rev. French Oliver had his 
fur coat swiped he notified the Chief of 
Police. Oliver believes in the literal 
interpretation of the Bible. ’ 


Somebody announced at the. meeting 
that Dr. F. Oliver had given $1,000 to a 
poor church, and—Cheers! 


‘When that dirty Unitarian 
wakes up in hell, etc.’’ 
—FRENCH OLIVER. 
‘‘There is not enough water on earth 
to save a soul from hell.’”’ 
—FRENCH OLIVER. 


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“Christian Science comes as a breath 
from hell.” —FRENCH OLIVER. 


it listeth 


and thou hearest the sound thereof.’’ 


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“To be nameless in worthy deeds ex- 
ceeds an infamous history.” 
—Sir THOMAS BROWNE. 


—JESUS. 


‘‘History has been explained by religion 


long enough, let us now explain religion 


by history.’’-—KaRL MARX. 


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FRENCH OLIVER 


Well, here we are again! Who have we 
with us now ? None other than our old 
end French Oliver! Oliver (French) 


a us Hell. Oliver (Frank) gives us 
Fasten: Oliver (John) gives us a 
splendid premier of B.C. There’s an 


Oliver in South Bend who makes plows; 
there’s Oliver Twist, the Model of our 
Modern Railway Magnate who always 
looks for more. There was Oliver Crom- 
well, Oliver Goldsmith, and there is a 
an 8th Avenue barber shop named 
Oliver, who always gives me a decent 
shave when I can get a spare quarter, 
but since I have heard French Oliver, I 
want no more Olivers. 


Of Olivers young and_ Olivers old, 

Of Olivers hot and Olivers cold, 

Of Olivers tender and Olivers tough— 
Thanks be to God we have had enough! 


This chap, French Oliver, met us before. 
The last time he was here was in 1758. 
His name then was, Jonathan Edwards, 
and he died March 22nd, 1758, from 
inoculation for smallpox. That’s one 
thing we have to thank vaccination for— 
it carried off one of our original hell-firing 
evangelists. 

* * %* 

Jonathan Edwards preached just like 
French Oliver. That shows that French 
Oliver is just about 200 years behind the 
times. If he had been born in 1700 he 
would have been in his real day. 


Here’s a little selection from Jonathan. 
Read it and then read French Oliver’s 


sermon on ‘‘Hell, as I See It.”’ 


“O sinner! consider the fearful danger 
you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath, 
a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire 
of wrath, that you are held over in the 
hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked 
and incensed as much against you, as 
against many of the damned in hell;— 
you hang by a slender thread with the 
flames of Divine wrath flashing about it, 
and ready every moment to singe it and 
burn it asunder; and you have no interest 
in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold 
of to save yourself, nothing to keep off 
the flames of wrath , nothing of your own, 
nothing that you ever have done, nothing 
that you can do, to induce God to spare 
you one moment 


“Tt is everlasting wrath. It would be 
dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath 
of Almighty God one moment; but you 
must suffer it to all eternity; there will 
be no end to this exquisite, horrible misery ; 
when you look forward you shall see a long 
forever, a boundless duration before you, 
Which will swallow up your thoughts and 
amaze your soul; and you will absolutely 
spair of ever having any deliverance, 
any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; 
you will know certainly that you must wear 
ae long ages, millions of millions of ages, 

Wrestling and conflicting with this 
mighty merciless vengeance; and then, 
ee have so done, when so many 
this Rie actually Deen spent by you in 
© Manner, you will know that all is but 
@ point to what remains.” 


That's goin’ some! isn't it ? ‘ 

ke oe to have a good-looking man 

ae iver getting easy money to scare 

utt &ss people by a rehash of sermons 
ered 175 years ago! 


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THE LAND QUESTION 


_ Our Ottawa correspondent calls atten- 
tion this week to a remarkable thing. 
The Government proposes to lease part 
of the Indian Lands to increase produc- 
tion. Sure thing! Do what you bally well 
please with the Indians, they have no 
votes, but what about the C.P.R.? 


Here is some of the best land in the 
world. The C.P.R. owns it and: the 
Government is mum. But the lands of 
the Indian—ah, that is a different matter! 

Incidentally the budget brings out the 
fact that the C.P.R. is to pay some taxes 
this year. The Government, however, 
made special provisions for increasing the 
freight rates of the C.P.R. so not only 
does the C.P.R. to-day collect money 
from us for freight rates and passenger 
services but it has been appointed by the 
Government as tax collector for the people 
of Canada. If we remember rightly, it 
was figured out that the C.P.R. would 
get $20,000,000, more or less from the 
excess freight rates which they are now 
permitted to charge. A trifle of this is to 
go back to the Government and I suppose 
we oe be thankful that they didn’t keep 
it all. , 

But the real question before the people 
to-day is the land question. In the 
Province of Alberta there are 7,000,000 
acres of School lands. There is approxi- 
mately the same area in the Province of 
Saskatchewan. These lands are sold from 
time to time and the Provincial Govern- 
ment gets interest upon the money ob- 
tained from the sale of this land, but the 
trouble with this system is that the land 
only becomes productive when it is sold 
There are hundreds of people who to-day 
would like to go out upon the land and 
produce something, but they do not want 
to feed fat some speculator in land who 
to-day is holding up the price for personal 
profit to himself. 


The Government does nothing but the 
remedy is on hand and so plainly effective 
that he who runs may read. The school 
lands should never have been held by the 
Dominion Government. These lands 
should have been turned over to the 
provinces. This should be done now and 
the province should lease them on 99-year 
leases subject to revaluation every three 
or five years and that valuation would 
take no account whatever of the improve- 
ments which had been put upon the land. 
In this way absolute security of tenure 
would be given to the man who rented 
the land. He would know that his efforts 
in making improvements would not in- 
crease the valuation of his land, then at 
any time he wanted to dispose of his 


property he would sell subject to the 
lease. 

The benefits resulting from such a 
policy are almost inconceivable. It would 


bring thousands of men who to-day are 
idle into the fields of productive activity. 
The fact that lands can be rented from 
the Provincial Government on a_ lease 
basis such as we have suggested would 
be a permanent check to the speculative 
transactions in idle lands and it would 
bring in to the revenues of the Province 
from the use of the school lands a sum so 
vastly in excess of that which we receive 
to-day from this source that it would 
bear to it no comparison whatever. 


Some years ago a square mile of land 
in what is now the City of Chicago, was 
set apart for the support of the schools 
in Illinois. The bulk of this was sold 
some years ago, part was retained. The 


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etained portion has been leased on long 
ft al ies such as we have described. 
This part of the transaction has been very 
profitable but if the entire amount of 
the original grant had been treated in the 
same way it would have brought sufficient 
revenues to the State of Illinois to main- 
tain the entire school system of the State. 
Precisely the same polity in regard to 
land should be adopted by the City of 
Calgary. The tax sale must be held 
sooner or later. When it is, large areas 
of land are bound to fall in to the possession 
of the city. Never again should these 
lands change from the collective owner- 
ship of the city to, individual ownership. 
When they become the property of the 
city they should be put out upon lease, 
subject to revaluation from time to time 
and in this way as the years roll on the 
increasing revenues of the city would go 
up by leaps and bounds and the city 
would find itself in everyday language, 
‘‘On Easy Street.” The private owner- 
ship of land is as vicious as the private 
ownership of air and water. Land is the 
property of all the people unless it was 
foreordained by GOD,that some_miserable 
“‘kikes’’, of landlords should have permus- 
sion to kick their fellow-men completely 
off GOD’S footstool. bat ay sn Bi Atinntatalbbetl 


KARL MARX CENTENARY 


‘One hundred years ago a man was 
born.”’ 

There is nothing so rare in a world of 
men aS a man. 

On the Sth of May, 1818, was born a 
man to whom the working-class of the 
world owes more than to any other human 
being. As Darwin discovered the law of 
evolution of organic nature, so Karl Marx 
discovered the law of evolution of human 
history. Marx established the simple 
historical fact that all the various forms 
of human society depend on how people 
eat, drink, live and clothe ethemselves and 
how they obtain the means of subsistence. 
By this scientific discovery human history 
was put upon its real basis and all previous 
society was put in its proper light. Marx 
also discovered that all social wealth is 
accumulated surplus value; value which 
the worker has created above his pay and 
which the capitalist pockets without giving 
the worker any compensation for it, and 
which is accumulated for the purpose of 
exploiting the worker with it and by it 
still more. 

The materialistic conception of history 
and the theory of surplus value—these are 
the two most important scientific dis- 


coveries of this scholarly investigator, . 


writer and author in the field of economic, 
political and social research. Marx differed 
from the ordinary representative of science 
for he pursued his researches not for the 
sake of science, but so that he might put 
his knowledge at the disposal of the en- 
slaved masses of mankind of the labor 
movement of the world—that is the 


great merit of this great thinker and . 


fighter. His famous motto: ‘‘ Proletarians 
of all nations, unite!’’ will ring down 
through the ages as the battle-ery of the 
workers of the entire world. To-day, on 
his hundredth anniversary, he is remem- 
bered on farm, in factory and workshop, 
from Siberia’s icy mountains to India’s 
coral strand. Clear-sighted workers of all 
countries will gain consolation and hope 
for the future from this immortal leader 
of the social revolution now shaking the 
earth and destined to destroy despotism 
in all its forms and emancipate the race 
from the slavery of the ages. 
“Workers of the world, unite!” 


—JOHN PHAROS. 


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richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble 
and happy human beings.” —Ruskin. 


THE The Calgary 
NEXT-OF-KIN Next-of-Kin Asso- 

ciation is passing 
through a stormy period at the 
present time, caused by a few of the 
highbrow (?) ladies who have been 
so accustomed to run things that 
they can never feel at home in the 
Next-of-Kin unless they are bossing. 


This association was started by a 
few women of vision who anticipated 
the problems of war, and saw the 
necessity of banding together for 
self protection. 


In the first stages of the movement 
none of the upper ten class of women 
could be found to recognize it, but 
as soon as the organization became 
strong and influential then immedi- 
ately an attempt was made to capture 
it; whether political purposes or 
merely personal ends account for 
this, we cannot say. 


It seems reasonably certain that 
much of the disturbance has been 
caused by the supercilious interfer- 
ence of some of the officers’ wives. 
These ladies have little or nothing 
in common with the wives of privates, 
and hot until equal pay to officers 
and privates be given will their wives 
meet on an equal footing. 


As things are at present, we would | 


Tecommend that the wives of officers 
om an organization of their own, 
and run it any way they please. 
he Next-of-Kin is a working-class 
organization with the proletariat out- 


ook, and will not be officered well 
Y officers’ wives. 


“Politics is the business of the people’’ 


‘The Alberta Non—Partisan 


RED DEER 


The Red. 
BY-ELECTION ‘cet ose 


seat vacated by 
Mr. Michener who 
iS Now a senatorial patronage ap- 
pointee, is being contested by a 
Tiberal of the orthodox faith, and a 
Unionist. Mr. Galbraith, who is 
the Unionist candidate, is trying to 
lay a claim for independence and 
promises to sit on the cross benches 
if elected. 

_ If this gentleman be sincere in his 
independent professions, why does he 
not run as an independent ? Sitting 
on the cross..benches does not make 
an independent, it is the election 
expenses that settles the attitude of 
members of Parliament, and if Mr. 
Galbraith will tell us who is paying 
the election bills, we will tell him 
how he will vote. 

Why does Mr. Galbraith not earn 
the right to sit on the cross benches 
by joining the Non-Partisan League ? 
If he will do this his expenses will be 
paid directly from the pockets of 
his own people, and he will be their 
servant in reality. 

We believe that Mr. Galbraith is 
playing the old political game and 
is the first sign of an attempt to 
Unionise the Province of Alberta. 
We have had enough of this already, 
in Dominion politics, and it is not 
likely that Mr. Galbraith can be 
elected without the aid of a Union 
Government election act, campaign 
funds notwithstanding. 

* # #* 


The United Farmers 
of Alberta are about 
to launch a great cam- 
paign for membership and education 
along co-operative lines. This is 
much needed, and we believe the 
time is opportune. 

The farmers’ industrial movement 
is spreading throughout our whole 
Dominion and will bring with it 
enlightenment and the spirit of co- 
operation. It is this spirit that is 
needed more than anything else in 
the trying times that are ahead of 
every nation in the world. This is 
the king spirit of the new age. 

Recently we have got the United 
Farmers of Ontario, and now the 
movement has entered New Bruns- 
wick: when will we get the United 
Farmers of Quebec ? All the organ- 
ized provinces should interest them- 
selves more in the organizations of 
other provinces. We believe that 
the uniting of the farmers of Quebec 
would be a very desirable accom- 
plishment, for with their co-operation 
greater things may be done for the 
common good. 


U.F.A. 
CAMPAIGN 


President Wood of the Alberta . 


organization has accepted an invita- 
tion to go on a lecture tour with the 
Chautanqua this summer. We con- 


\ 


—— — 


gratulate the Chautauqua on securing 


Mr. Wood in this capacity, and we. 


congratulate the people who will thus 
be able to hear a farmer lecturer. who 
is one of the ablest and best informed 
men on his subject in this province. 

* oe Ok 
THE NEXT 
GOVERNMENT Great Britain in- 


OF BRITAIN dicate that a gen- 
eral election is im- 
pending; that the Labor Party is 


growing in influence, and may be 
called upon to form the next govern- 
ment. 
by men of outstanding ability and 
clarity of vision, and whose influence 
since the beginning of the war is 
not only national but world-wide. 
The voting power of the party will 
be greatly increased by the new 
Franchise Bill, 
changed policy which opens the 
ranks to all who are in sympathy 
with labor principles. ‘Taking all 
into consideration it does not seem 
unlikely that the Labor Party will 
come to power in Britain at the next 
election. 

We are not sure that success at 
this time would be advisable.. While 
we are convinced of the truth that 
the leaders of the old social order 
are incapable of leadership in the 
coming: days and that the labor 
leaders alone have the outlook neces- 
sary to guide the destinies of the 
nation under the conditions that are 
inevitable after the war, yet there 
are other considerations which may 
outweigh even these convictions. 

If the Labor Party is called upon 
to take the reins of government 
during the war it will have to face 
the industrial, social and financial 
chaos brought about by the present 
administration. Britain has now a 
debt of six billion pounds, and the 
Lloyd George administration is pledg- 
ed to pay interest on this colossal 
figure. It is not likely that this is 
possible, and therefore if the Labor 
Party came to power and failed to 
do it, the impression would be left 
that the old administration could 
have carried it through. The all- 
powerful Northcliffe press would 
hasten to charge labor with the 
crimes and incapacities of its prede- 
cessors. [hus the party would be 
wrecked before it had an opportunity 
to establish itself by efficient service. 
We believe it would be better to 
allow the present government or a 
similar one to face its own inevitable 
doom in the financial collapse, and 
in the industrial chaos which will 
follow the cessation of hostilities, and 
then the Labor Party would be 
called upon to reconstruct on a new 
social and economic basis the future 
of the British people. 


5 


Reports from 


The Labor Party is officered . 


and also by the 


SOLDIERS’ A comparative state- 
PENSIONS ment of soldiers’ pen- 
sions has again been 
issued by the publicity department 
at Ottawa. The pensions paid in 
Canada we are told are much higher 
than any other country; almost 
twice as much as in Great Britain. 
Canada pays a soldier totally dis- 
abled fifty dollars per month; Britain 
only pays twenty-nine dollars. 


A statement of pensions paid with- 
out a comparative statement of the 
cost of living is always misleading. 
It may be that the British soldier 
with his small pension would be 
better off than the Canadian soldier 
with his big pension. There are 
other factors when discussing pen- 
sions which ought to be considered 
before passing judgment on the adver- 
tised generosity of Ottawa. 


The first is the medical classifica- 
tion of the soldier who is discharged 
with a pension. All soldiers are 
medically examined and _ classified 
according to their disability and 
inability to earn a living in the open 
market before their discharge. The 
medical boards are made up of men 
who are not usually conversant with 
industrial conditions, and very often 
men of poor judgment, hence there 
is often a great disparity in the 
classification. We have in mind a 
striking example of this statement 
which is common gossip. 


Colonel L , now a member 
of the Pensions Commission, was. 
invalided home from France suffering 
from a lesion of the heart. He is 
classified as totally disabled and 
draws the maxmum pension of 
eighteen hundred and ninety dollars 
per year, besides his salary on the 
commission. A private from Edmon- 
ton, suffering from .the same com- 
plaint, was invalided home classified 
as partially disabled, and is now 
drawing the magnificent pension of 
about one hundred dollars per year. 
Is this fair ? The maximum pension 
in Canada may be the highest but 
what is the use of a high maximum 
if the medical boards classify in this 
Way ? 

There is another objection to the 
pension system that ought to be 
rectified. Returned soldiers suffering 
from a chronic disease may receive 
their discharge immediately on re- 
turning to Canada regardless of 
whether the disease was contracted 
on active service or not. The dis- 
charged soldier is then handed over 
to the care of the Invalid Soldiers’ 
Commission as a civilian. Should 
he. die while under the care of this 
commissicn, being no longer a soldier, 
he is not entitled to a pension. If 
these and other objections, such as 


The Alberta Non-Partisan 


the inequality of pensions or de- 
pendents of officers and men, were 


Ane gn pn Se 


removed, our pension system would 


be more worthy to boast about. 
* *x OX 


NEWSPAPER It is common for 
CRITICISM people to criticise 

newspapers; 
the news is said to be colored, and 
the general editorial tone is such as 
to uphold the mighty and discredit 
the people. 


The Morning Albertan which is 
perhaps the most fearless newspaper 
in the Province of Alberta and 
which has often with loss to itself 
defended the issues in favor of the 
people, frankly states in a recent 
editorial why such criticism as men- 
tioned above has a foundation. The 
Morning Albertan in the editorial 
referred to did not speak of this 
particular point but in answer to a 
correspondent regarding the failure 
of the newspapers to increase their 
prices to the subscribers in keeping 
with the increased cost of produc- 
tion, it said that newspapers were 
relying more on advertisers than on 
subscribers for support, and con- 
sequently were able to get along 
without charging more for subscrip- 
tions. If there is any truth in the 
trite newspaper criticism this will 
be found to be the reason—it is the 
advertisers not the general reading 
public that the paper looks to for 
support. ‘The Albertan says, ‘‘This 
is a bad system.” 


Now, are the subscribers willing to 
pay enough for newspapers to make 
these papers independent of the 
advertisers. We doubt this very 
much. But until they are willing to 
do so they might as well withhold 
criticism. 


* * * 
SIGNS THAT The Calgary Local 
WOMEN WILL Council of Women 
REFORM —to those who 
THE WORLD know it best, is 


most famous for 
its utter ignorance of the real human 
problems. Its attitude is Tory and 
Imperialistic , and for jingoism it 
would resemble a pink tea in Potsdam. 
But while this is generally true of the 
Council, there are a few able and 
progressive women amongst those 
composing the Council, who may 
succeed ultimately in redeeming the 
institution. 


_ There are signs already of a slight 
improvement in the direction of 
humanness in this most useless 
society. For instance, it has recently 
forwarded a resolution to the Prime 
Minister of Canada and to Mr. 
T. M. Tweedie, M.P., asking that 
the shooting of wild birds for sport 


be prohibited. This same 
tion requested the conscript: 

Canadian manhood to te ot 
whether wealth was conscripted ee 
not—imany men are not equal “ 
sparrow in the opinion of this b 


Organjza- 


to a 


ody, 
But let us rejoice that their 
have been touched by the shaw 


of ducks and prairie chickens. Thi 
is a great advance to make in zs 
year. If this Society continues it 
phenomenal progress along tisha 
ao lines, we may revive our 

Opes Once more that th r 
efor the world. aaa 
TITLES There has been much talk 

. of titles in Canada recent- 
ly, and some legislation dealing with 
the question has been passed, which 
if we understand it aright merely adds 
that the Prime Minister of Canada 
must be consulted before titles are 
granted hereafter. As we see it 4 
title might be as silly when endorsed 
by a premier, as when granted by a 
king. 

But why did not our Knights in 
the House begin the good work by 
making a bonfire of their ‘Sirs’? 

Sir Robert, Sir Sam, Sir Joseph 
Flavelle, etc., etc., etc., should have: 
set Canadians a moral. example by 
de-knighting and de-sir-ing them- 
Selves. 


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STARTING 


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BIRD 


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THE NEED FOR CO-OPERATION 
By Mrs. ‘McKinney, M.L.A. 


My ‘Dear Comrades:— 


Now that the Ses- 
sion of the Legislature 
is over for this year 
and no Provincial or 
Dominion election’ is 


naturally arises, 
‘““What next?” for 
members of the Non- 
Partisan movement. 


In uniting with any 
movement every 
in thoughtful man and 


zes that the relationship this 
two-fold—there are certain 
we hope to receive and there 
lities which we vie nected 
e. The responsibi ity of the 
1 sividual member is not discharged when 
he pays his initial membership fee, but 
if the movement is worth the price of 
that fee, then it 1s worth the intelligent 
‘nterest of every member, and we owe it 
to ourselves that we maintain such an 
mT eee Executive ‘is appointed to 
direct the affairs of the organization, but 
they alone cannot insure its success. A 
letter commending their methods or 
kindly suggesting something which you 
feel would be an improvement would 
materially strengthen their hands. They 
are doing their best from their viewpoint, 
but would be glad to know what other 
members are thinking, and to get the 
benefit of their ideas. If you are not 
sure of the reason for any part of their 
policy, write and ask about it, and see 
whether the reason given justifies the 
course of, action. fee te 

2. There are certain principles on 
which the movement is based. It is the 
privilege as well as the duty of every 
member to study those principles and see 
whether they are worth while. We have 
committed ourselves to them—why have 
we done so? And why do we wish to 
persuade others to do likewise ? We do 
not want to place ourselves in the position 
of condemning things just because they 
are, nor of desiring a change just for the 
sake of excitement and variety, but 
neither do we want to assume that because 
conditions fiave existed, therefore they 
must continue to exist be they good or 
bad, nor to fail to attack undesirable con- 
ditions simply because it may be difficult 
to change them. Will we not strive to 
make ourselves intelligent on the principles 
for which we are supposed to stand and 
to be able to give a reason for the faith 
that is in us ? 

One of the greatest essentials in the 
new and wider democracy of which we 
talk and dream is the intelligent interest of 
the individual member of society and it 
8 ours to help raise that standard now. 
If our present party system is wrong— 
just where does its weakness lie, and how 
are we justified in our assumption that 
the Surest and most rapid cure is in con- 
tinuing the attitude of independence that 
fin have assumed ? A study of our 

ancial questions will lead us into broad 
eae Investigation and cannot be 
hth Ny compassed, but we can learn 
peri little just why we are condemning 

win conditions and what the best 


Writers of to-day have to say as to methods 
o correction, 


woman reali 
involves 1S 

benefits that ' 
are responsibi 


able for : . 
ble for us to analyze our own motives in 


in forming the 


in sight the question. 


Perhaps last of all it will be -profit-: 


4 = . 
4 


approaching the questions we study and 


Opinions 
great moral, social and oonainie faltee 
Saran Sia elas a challenge to every 
tively Ape an ot are so free to effec- 
Ep Aes Se eir solution as those who 
ore are ae without party bias and 
fee eeedia = purpose far removed from 
did and selfish and bent primarily 
on serving humanity. 
, The stress and sacrifice of to-day calls 
for nothing less, and given this we can and 
bu ete with greater courage, patience 
zea for the accomplishing of what we 
feel to be right. 
—LouisE C. McKInney. 
a ee 
THAT ‘‘MORE PRODUCTION" CRY! 

A “Farm Woman” living in the vicinity 
of Craigmyle who is supposed to be inter- 
ested in the establishment of Horticultural 
Clubs for the children, has received a 
letter from the office of the Food Con- 
troller urging the use of vegetables on 
the farm to conserve wheat, meat, etc., 
and asking her to use her influence in 
Orgamizing as many clubs as_ possible. 
The following reply has been sent: 
Office of the Food Controller. 

F. Abraham, Esq., 
Dear Sir:— 

Your letter re the necessity of horticul- 
tural work to hand. I fully appreciate 
the sentiments expressed therein and will 
do all I possibly can to help on the good 
work, but in this community I will be 
laboring under a very serious handicap 
for the following reasons:—I live in one 
of the finest wheat belts in the West, and 
a large number of farmers realizing to 
the full, the responsibility placed upon 
their shoulders to raise every pound of 
grain possible, ordered in tractors late in 
winter, hoping by this means to overcome 
the shortage of labor and increase the 
acreage in crop. 

We are served by the Canadian Northern 
which is a Government railroad, and so 
far only three tractors have been brought 
to our station, and now even these as well 
as all the tractors that were in the country 
before, from Saskatoon to Calgary, are 
tied up for lack of oil which the railroad 
is failing to bring in. 

Again—By an Order-in-Council we hear 
that all the young men from 20 to 23 are 
called out. So far as we are concerned 
that will leave us with only one slim. 
boy of 18 to farm 640 acres. 

I am not making any personal howl, 
we are only a type. 

A neighbor who was exempted last 
winter because he had about 200 acres 
ready for crop was ordered a short time 
ago to report at Calgary. At the time 
he was obliged to go around by Stettler 
necessitating a heavy expense bill and 
almost a week’s absence in seeding time. 
I might go on indefinitely quoting similar 
incidents, which dishearten the people and 
are causing them to lose confidence in the 
Government. 

Our young countrymen have been all 
their lives on the farm, and are skilled 
farmers and horsemen, many of them 
are farm tractor experts. What in the 
name of commonsense is the use of picking 
them all up and sending them to the 
trenches when the United States have 
millions of men ready, but cannot find - 
transportation for them ? 

What encouragement is there for women, 
and children to try to help by raising 


carrots, etc. ? 
: —A ‘‘FARM WOMAN.” 


‘the brain, is obstructed in any way. 


WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU ? 
The Illuminated Skeleton Tells 


Incandescent Lights Indicate the 


Organs of the Body 


Roske & Messenger, Calgary's lead- 
ing Chiropractors, 304 Leeson & Line- 

am Block, have a .novel, and rather 
startling method of explaining to you 
what the trouble is “when you are ill. 
They have a skeleton in.which they have 
placed incandescent lights corresponding 
to the places occupied by the eyes, heart, 
lungs, liver, stomach and other vital organs. 
These lights are all connected with electric 
wires running to the.brain. They are 
using this very ingenious arrangement to 
show you exactly why a part of the body 
becomes diseased, which means that a 
nerve leading from this part to the spine 
is pinched or injured, explaining to you 


the brain as the dynamo, and the spinal. 


cord as the main cable. 

They have placed small switches along 
the spine where the nerves: branch out to 
the different organs. 
these switches so that a very small amount 
of current goes to the light which repre- 
sents the organ which is diseased, it causes 
the light to burn very dimly. This illus- 
trates the effect on any part of the body 
when the nerve force, which comes from 
By 
adjusting the spine, or, in this instance, 
turning the switch over a notch to supply 
more current, the. light begins to grow 
brighter again. In order to show what 
happens when a nerve is so pinched that 


the nerve cannot pass at all, the switch is’ 


closed completely, extinguishing the light, 
which in our. body would mean total 
paralysis. ‘ 

These switches work somewhat on the 
principal feature of the familiar high and 
low light that burns brightly in one 
position of the switch and low in another. 
There are many switches, each working 
independently of the other. For instance, 
the light representing the heart may be 
burning brightly, but the one representing 
the stomaeh may be exceedingly dim, thus 
illustrating the fact that the current 
leading to one vital organ may be. exceed- 
ingly strong, while the current leading to 
another may be very weak. 


Roske & Messenger are enthusiastic’ 


Chiropractors. They believe in their 
science and are leaving no stone unturned 
to prove to the public that Chiropractic 
is right. 


By turning one of. 


‘ 


The Alberta Non-Partisan 


Our Parliamentary Letter 


f Our Correspondent at Ottawa is 
writing a weekly letter, and we publish 
both because they are a complete 
record and a splendid resume of the 
work accomplished and the problems 
discussed in the House. These letters 
will be continued to the close of the 
session and should be of absorbing 
interest to our readers. 
Ottawa, April 26th, 1918 

The House has been 
occupied with a variety 
of routine business. On 
April 19th the Premier 
brought down a motion 
seeking ratification of 
the Order - in - Council 
making amendments to 
the Military Service 
Act which cancelled all 
exemptions for men be- 
tween twenty and twenty-three. Sir 
Robert Borden, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and 
Mr. Rowell in turn went over the old 
ground which had been so often traversed 
before. Mr. Molloy of Provencher, Man., 
moved an amendment providing for the 
exemption of farmers, to which Mr. Carvell 
replied. Mr Carvell does not wear the 
guise of a completely happy man as he 
sits on the Unionist benches but on this 
occasion he spoke with considerable force 
and effect though he had very little new 
light to throw on the subject. He, how- 
ever, strongly emphasized the fact that 
the youth of Quebec were not alone in 
scheming for exemptions under the Act 
but that the men registered in other prov- 
inces and particularly in Ontario had been 
equally energetic in the process of avoiding 
its call. -Mr. Lapointe of Montreal moved 
an amendment for a six months hoist 
when both this and Mr. Molloy’s were 
defeated by majorities of about fifty and 
the resolution was agreed to by the same 
number of: votes. It is understood that 
the most of the opposition were decidedly 
against encouraging the Lapointe amend- 
ment and they refrained from making any 
speeches to the great disappointment of 
the Ontario Orangemen, who were loaded 
up with their usual cargo of froth and 
vituperation. The Military Service Act 
in its original form has proved a grievous 
fiasco and if the Government in November 
had offered a three hundred dollar bounty 
to every man who erlisted they might 
have saved themselves a vast amount of 
trouble and secured infinitely more re- 
cruits. Of course the necessities of the 
situation in Flanders are very great but 
it may still be. found that food is a greater 
necessity of the Allies than men. 
Orangemen in the House are the most 
useless and dangerous element in the 
Canadian Parliament. They are all men 
of narrow education and restricted views 
and have little thought save preserving 
the petty grafts and interests which may 
secure poptilarity among their own con- 
stituents and may help their return at the 
next election. Their attitude has com- 
pletely disgusted a large number of 
Western Unionists, some of whom are 
said to have registered a protest with the 
Cabinet against it. Mr. H. A. Mackie of 
RNdmonton, who has a French-Canadian 
mother voiced their sentiments in the 
House by rebuking the ill-tempered and 
futile abtise on Quebec which the Orange 
patriots indulge in, and won general com- 
mendation therefor. ‘The said Mr. Mackie 
is a speaker of considerable powers and 
knowledge. 

The Government have recently done one 
jor two good things. They have provided 


From Our Special Correspondent 


funds for a statistical department. whose 
absence was a deplorable gap in our 
machinery of administration heretofore. 
They have also introduced a measure pro- 
viding fifty thousand dollars which will 
be increased annually to one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars for assisting the 
provinces to establish state labor bureaux. 


‘Whatever money the provinces provide 


for this purpose, will be duplicated by the 
Federal Government. There was some 
sharp criticism of the scheme and its 
deficiencies were pointed out. t 
really needed is a complete co-ordinated 
system of bureaux under Federal control 
and sooner or later this will have to be 
devised. 


Considerable discussion has taken place 
at various times in the House over the 
resignation of Mr. W. F. O’Connor, the 
Commissioner of Enquiry into the cost 
of living, who was a very fearless public 
servant and was the author of what is now 
known as the Flavelle report on the pork-. 
packing industry. Mr. O’Connor resigned 
after a petty quarrel with his superior, Mr. 
Crothers, the Minister of Labor, over the 
question of disciplining some fair satellite in 
his office. But there are grave suspicions 
that this was merely a visible pretext and 
that certain powerful and offended in- 
fluences forced his withdrawal from office. 
Mr. Crothers is a genial old busy-body 
who is absolutely innocent ,of all real 
understanding of industrial and labor 
problems. He has a penchant for dis- 
missing capable subordinates and his 
rule of life seems to be, ‘‘ Well, I don’t 
know much but I know enough to fire 
somebody.” In all other countries the 
complexity of labor problems and their 
vital relation to the successful conduct of 
the war has demanded the close attention 
of Governments and resulted in the alloca- 
tion of the most competent and progres- 
sive ministers to the departments of labor. 
But here in Canada we are content to,run 
along with an ancient Ontario lawyer in 
charge of our labor department and then 
we wonder why labor troubles spring up 
in every quarter of the country. 


Motions by Mr. Clements of B.C. and 
others which were consolidated by the 
speaker into one, caused a discussion of 
the problem of conscripting aliens which 
is being urged with great force from many 
quarters. The Government is well aware 
of the difficulties and complications with 
which the problem bristles such as the 
objections of labor to the thin end of the 
wedge _of industrial compulsion, the 
possibility of complications in international 
law and the effect in Eastern Europe, in 
Poland and elsewhere, where the Germans 
would certainly utilize effectively any 
such action on our part. There was a 
heated denunciation of the aliens and 
their greed and apathy towards our war 
efforts. Everybody wanted something 
done but no one came forward with 
practical and feasible proposals. Intelli- 
gent and thoughtful speeches were made 
by Mr. F. L. Davis of Neepawa and Dr. 
White of Brandon who are both members 
of more than average ability. Their com- 
mon sense and liberality formed a striking 
contrast to the airy vapourings of a large 
number of their colleagues who took 
occasion in the course of the debates upon 
the labor bureaux and the alien problem 
to utter their views upon the problem of 
labor and capital. It was an amusing 
sight to find some of the most obvious re- 


actionaries posing as valiant champions 
the labor interest. ‘ ms 


What is* 


nis x 
Mr. Meighen has been ' a 
a bill to amend the Tndien’ ate through 
among other changes, the Indj Whereby 
missioners will be, empowered an Com. 
tracts of the Reserves, which the 1 lease 
are not utilizing, to farmers "dian 
the proceeds of the: leases bein 
over to the Indians. Mr. Cahijj of P, saaee 
asked. very pertinently why, if th ontlae 
purpose of the bill was. to secin ae 
cultivation of additional land we the 
take from the Indians their right should 
they are living on the land in tho When 
way and yet do nothing to disturb the 
ed interests of the C.P.R. and ma : 
landholding corporations who aed 
absolutely idle for speculative 
betes Mearal tid areas of land: Profit, 
ednesday, the 24th, w 
two subjects, hay and ie pai : 
it 1s proposed to inspect Hvoloude. gale 
the new Parliament Buildings , one 
discussion on the first subject “hes = 
members seized the opportunity miei 
stint to air their views upon various aa 
grievances and the speeches were aoe 
copious than enlightening. ‘The questi i 
of the New Parliament Buildings came is 
when Mr. Carvell brought in the Public 
Works Department estimates and he 
caused great disappointment by announe- 
ing that the new buildings would not be 
completed in timeefor next session. The 
Victoria Memorial Museum where Parlia. 
ment now sits is far from ideal quarters: 
the acoustics are deplorably bad and the 
difficulty of hearing combined with the 
discomfort of all save the front bench 
chairs are, according to Mr. Hume Cronyn, 
responsible for the apathy which often 
marks the attendance on debates. There 
was considerable criticism of the high 
cost of the new buildings and the failure 
to utilize the old walls and some objection 
was raised to the proposal to provide the 
Speaker with a home inside the building. 
But if any servant of the Canadian people 
deserves consideration it is the present 
Speaker, Mr. Rhodes, who is both very 
capable and absolutely impartial and 
makes an ideal tenant of the chair. It 
was expected that Mr. A. K. Maclean, 
who is acting-Minister of Finance in the 
absence of the elusive Sir Thomas White, 
would bring down his budget on Thursday 
the 25th but its introduction has been 
deferred till next week. Possibly Sir 
Thomas in distant California still likes to 
keep his finger on the switches and the 
theory is that the budget has been dis- 
patched to him for revision and ratifica- 
tion. 


Own 
vest- 
y large 
keeping 


Ottawa, May 3rd, 1918. 


Tuesday, the 30th, was budget day 
in the House of Commons and in tke 
absence of Sir Thomas White, A. K. 
Maclean, who has been acting as Minister 
of Finance, introduced it. Mr. Maclean 
is an experienced politician who since 
1911 has acted as financial critic for the 
Laurier opposition. He has never been 
noted for any aggressively radical views 
having always taken a very moderate 
line on most public questions. He spoke 
for about an hour and his exposition of 
the financial situation of his country was 
an agreeable surprise to most of his 
audience. He has a good talking voice 
and his marshalling of facts and figures 
was lucid and intelligible. He confined 
himself to the cold facts of the case aa 
showed a fine grasp of the art of con 
densation. Whether one differed with 
his proposals or not there could be m0 
question but it was an admirable budget 
speech, on this, friend and foe alike are 
agreed. His detailed statement of the 
Canadian finances have already been 
Canadian finances have already 


(Continued on Page 11) 


MERS PROTEST AGAINST 
GOVERNMENT ACTION 


is likely to be preripitated 

f the Government in with- 
by se at8 eons granted to farm 
de OF twenty to twenty-two. years old. 
ot tdberg on May 4th, a mass meeting 
At mers was held to protest against this 
of et injustice. A strong message was 
a to Hon. A. Crerar at Ottawa, 
ey - that the situation was serious, and 
diag that the Government adhere 
gets pledged word given last fall re 
ee tions for farmers’ sons. We publish 
ee the answer received from Mr. 
ee and also the reply sent by the 
committee to Mr. Crerar. 

Farmers from the Bawlf, Edberg and 
New Norway districts .assure us that 
seeding operations are being held up 
pending a satisfactory arrangement with 
the Government, aS many of the young 
men now being taken own. and operate 
farms, and universal dissatisfaction pre- 


vails. 


FAR 


Answer Received from Mr. Crerar 


Ottawa, Ont., May 6, 1918. 


Committee of Edberg, Alberta. 

Telegram received. Appreciate fully 
seriotsness of situation. Farmers in 
Canada have suffered nothing in com- 
parison with those of France, Italy and 
Great Britain. There almost every able- 
bodied man is off farm and work being 
done by old men, women and children. 
Feel you have overlooked fact that military 
influence has tremendously changed in 
last six weeks. If Germany wins this war, 
and she is not beaten yet by a long way, 
she will have something to say as to how 
and where Canadian farmers will sell 
their product. 

Signed, T. A. CRERAR. 


Copy of Telegram Sent in Reply to 
; Mr. Crerar 


New Norway, May 6, 1918. 
Hon. T. A. Crerar, 
Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa. 
At a mass meeting held here to-night 
represented by over five hundred people. 
In answer to Edberg message of May 6th. 
You cannot understand the chaotic con- 
dition it will create here in our midst to 
stop seeding now, as to take the actual 
farmers boys now’ means practically im- 
possible to sow any more grain, as what 
there is left of us will have more than 
our hands full to garner what is already 
sown. Discouragement universal. Favor- 
able action urgent. 
Committee:— 
JAMES MINER, Bawlf. 
FRANK BARTOFF, Ferintosh. 
PETER RAMSAY 
ANDREW JOHNSTON 
JNO. NEUVE. 


* * * 


PRICE OF WAGE LABOR 


“The average price of wage labor is 
that quantum of the means of subsistence 
which Is absolutely requisite to keep the 
laborer in bare existence as a laborer. . 

It is not intended to abolish the personal 
appropriation of the products of labor, 
ut merely the miserable character of 
stich appropriation, not to do away with 
¢ appropriation that is made for the 

maintenance and reproduction of human 
life, but that appropriation of the surplus 
whereby the labor of others is commanded.” 
—KarRL MARX. 


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The N.P.L. is but a child politically, yet its representatives have “‘scared"’ 
the Government money-changers, and it has become already a force to be 
reckoned with in our public life. , 


FURTHER REPLIES FROM OTTAWA. 


Ottawa, April 10th, 1918. 
Secretary, 
Non-Partisan Political League: 

Dear Sir,—I am in receipt of your letter 
with representations in regard to the re- 
turned soldiers’ problem. 

I am in favor of the soldiers getting 
the most favorable consideration in taking 
up land. I am also in favor of the idle 
lands, especially those close to transpor- 
tation facilities being utilized, if at all 
possible. 

As to pensions, I have always been an 
advocate of equal pensions without con- 
sideration of rank. 

Yours respectfully, 
W. A. BUCHANAN. 
* * * 


Dear Sir,—I am in due receipt of your 
letter of the 28th March, enclosing copy 
of resolution passed at the second annual 
convention of the Non-Partisan League of 
Canada, held on the 20th of March last, 
and I have noted with interest the views 
expressed in this resolution. — 

Your former communication, referred 
to, of December 27th, also came to my 
attention and. receipt thereof was not 
acknowledged by me owing to the fact 


- wealth.’’ 


that an acknowledgement had been sent 
you by my secretary. 

As you are no doubt aware the matters 
referred to in some of these resolutions have 
already received the consideration of the 
Government. Yours very truly, 

T. A. CRERAR. 
* * 
Ottawa, April 25th, 
Dear Mr. Ford: 


I beg to acknowledge receipt of your 
favor of the 28th ultimo with resolution 
attached in regard to the returned soldier 
problem, for which please accept my 
thanks. I shall place the same before the 
Minister of Soldiers’ Civil Re-establish- 


1918. 


ment. Yours truly, 

T. M. ‘TwseEpts. 
* * * 
THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH 


F. J. Dixon gave a talk before the 
Labor Party on ‘‘ The Canadian Common- 
The speaker proved conclusively 
that there has never been ahy such animal 
in Canada, but that Canada has been a 
country of exploitation from the time of 
Champlain to 1918. The Labor Party 
would do well to have the address in 
pamphlet form. 

—‘THe WINNIPEG Voice.’ 


10 


REVOLUTION IN CANADA 


Editor, NON-PARTISAN :-— 


A recent editorial in the ‘‘Grain Grow- 
ers’ Guide,”’ said, ‘‘ Revolution is coming.” 
This applied mainly to Europe, particu- 
larly Germany. Over here in Canada we 
don’t need a revolution, as everything is 
going on beautifully, and everybody is 
making money. Of course, our political 
system may be all right and it makes very 
little difference whether we live in a re- 
_ public or under a constitutional monarchy. 
We notice that things over across the line 
to the south, don’t run any too smooth; 
there is a whole lot of kicking there right 
now. 

But it appears to me that a little revolu- 
tion along economic lines might do a heap 
of good; that is, to those that don’t belong 
to the monied aristocracy. We are told 
that a short time ago a freight car contain- 
ing Massey-Harris binders was wrecked 
on the railroad. The railway people hav- 
ing to settle for the destruction of those 
binders settled with the implement com- 
pany for $33 per binder, which they 
claimed was the exact cost of making the 
binder. Now then, when we consider the 
price we farmets have to pay for binders 
this year, there appears to be quite a 
difference between the cost and the selling 
price, and it looks as if somebody must 
get a great rake-off 


Of course, nobody expects the Massey- 
Harris or any other company to sell 
binders at cost. They could not do that 
and remain in business. Still it appears 
that the difference between $33 and $250 
is a little too much and looks like whole- 
sale robbery and I for one am dead willing 
to join any sort of revolution that will 
have for its object the wiping out of some 
of the difference. 


Of course, the statement of the $33 may 
be wrong, and it might cost the binder 
companies more to make binders this year 
owing to the increased cost of men and 
material. Still there must be good profit 
in it, as some of the shareholders in imple- 
ment companies are becoming millionaires 
and possessors of titles while the majority 
of farmers remain poor and have to get 
fed up by the Government once in a while 


when crops area failure. ‘ 


But the Government is going to do 
great things for the farmer and has taken 
the duty off the small tractors. This is 
all right as far as it goes, the trouble is 
that only about one otit of every hundred 
farmers can buy a tractor and half of those 
buying them don’t know how to run them. 
Qn such things as every farmer has to 
have in order to farm, such as binders, 
plows, discs, wagons, etc., the duty is still 
kept on in spite of the fact that every 
farmer. in Western Canada has asked and 
begged to have that duty removed for the 
past many years. Right here some more 
revolution is needed. In fact we have 
several abominable things here in demo- 
cratic Canada that need a little Bolshevik- 
jem in order to be made fit to get along 
with. 


The farmers and workers of Canada 
must come together economically and 
politically , and proceed to straighten up 
matters so that this country with all its 
great natural resources will be a fit place 
to live in for all the people, and not have 
a few people reap all the benefits while the 
great majority do all the work for just a 
living. 

—JouN GLAMBECK, Milo. 


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The Alberta Non-Partisan 


The Nomn-Partisan Letter Box . 


WHAT OUR SOLDIERS ARE 
THINKING 

This letter has been forwarded us by 
D. H. Galbraith, of Vulcan, having been 
received from his brother who is a Captain» 
in the Army Medical Corps. The letter 
will be of interest to many of our readers 
especially those personally acquainted 
with Mr. Galbraith. 

Dear Brother :— 

To-day is Good Friday, but the name 
seems absolute mockery, Imagine any 
day being called Good, when hell reigns 
supreme on earth. The devil must fairly 
gloat as he looks on this earth and sees 
the hatred in men’s hearts. The bombard- 
ment, the advance, the slaughter by 
machine guns, the bayonet charge, the 
steel being driven through soft flesh, the 
moment’s exultation to be cut short by 
a bullet, and so on, and the cauldron boils 
on, all through a few ambitious people 
placed in position to control the destiny 
of many. 

I was through it last summer, and am 
expecting to be sent very shortly to go 
through it again. Others much less fit 
than myself have been sent weeks ago. 
The medical casualties just published have 
been very heavy, and there is. pressing 
need for ‘more to take their place. 

I have responded to every call, and 
will not pass it this time. The name 
must be represented in this, the greatest 
of all battles. If word doesn’t soon come 
through, I will put in an application to 
be sent. 

It’s a heavy task on at the present time, 
and one and all are needed to do their 
full part, not only in the fight but at home,. 
either to produce food or munitions or 
guns. Still, I don’t think it will end this 
year, excepting by a revolution in Ger- 
many, and that can only be brought about 
by defeat of their present offensive. 

I have done over eighty operations 
since coming here, and everyone being 
very successful. Am having good health 
now, and feel able for almost anything. 

SMe. a “Bro. CuHas.”’ 


ASHAMED OF TORONTO 


Reid Hill, Alberta, 
Publisher, ALBERTA NON-PARTISAN: 
Dear Sir:— 

Thanks for sample copies of above, also 
March 12th issue, in which there is one 
article that is worth the whole subscrip- 
tion price. The article referred to is 
‘“Toronto, The Good.” I am a Canadian, 
but ashamed of the treatment meted out 
to-W. J. Bryan, the Conscientious Ob- 
jectors, and the International Bible Stu- 
dents, a religious organization, in forbid- 
ding them to have the ‘‘ Finished Mystery’’ 
in their possession. It is plain to be seen 
that the meeting of the Ministerial Alli- 
ance, behind closed doors, has borne 
fruit, but the cat came out of the bag. 

Respectfully yours, 
—Mrs. A. HEATH. 


* *  & 


THE RIGHT SPOT 


ALBERTA NON-PaRTISAN, Calgary. 
Gentlemen :— 

Here’s a dollar. Send THE Nown- 
PARTISAN. It gives us a rest to read 


print that isn’t bought up in one way 
or another. 


_That on ‘‘Toronto, the Good” (Mar. 
15), went to the right spot. Keep at it! 


Sincerely, 
E. WEBER, Lajord, Sask. 


In the Matter of the 


a, | 
|! 


Enforcement of The 
Motor Vehicle Act’ 


be | 


NOTICE is hereby given that the pro 
visions of The Motor Vehicle Act are : 
be rigidly enforced. There is no defence 
for a person operating an unlicensed motor | 
vehicle at this date, as immediate delivery 
of Automobile Number Plates may be 
obtained not only at the Departmenta] 
Office at Edmonton, Calgary and Leth- 
bridge, but also from the Clerks of the 
Court at Peace River, Wetaskiwin, Cam. 
rose, Stettler, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, 
Bassano, Macleod and Taber, and from. 
the Process Issuers at Fort Saskatchewan 
Vegreville, Lloydminster, Sedgewick, Har- 
disty, Coronation, Vermilion, ‘Wainwright, 
Oyen and Youngstown. 


The Motor Vehicle Inspectors of the 
Department have instructions to see that 
the Act is strictly enforced in its entirety, 


Dated at Edmonton this 11th day of 
April, A.D. 1918. 


-E. TROWBRIDGE, 
Deputy Provincial Secretary, 


HAIL 
INSURANC 


Great North Insurance Co, 


(Members Canadian Hall Under- 
writers’ Association) 


Famers! Place your insurance with. 
a company whose Head Office is 
within easy reach and prompt service 
can be given. 


The season is short, therefore you 
want quick service. 


See our local agent or write Head 
Office :— 


205 Oddfellows’ Block, Calgary, Alta. 
or The Empire Financiers Ltd., 
307 Darke Block, Regina, Sask. 


We also write FIRE and 
LIVESTOCK INSURANCE 


Prompt adjustment and Payment 
; of Losses 


ee eee eee ee ee ee 
Agents Wanted 


Bee 


The Alberta Non-Partisan 


—~ [UR PARLIAMENTARY LETTER 


(Continued from Page 8) ! 


the Press and there is no 
pnown trove them here. Many were 
nee? i to think that his view of Canada’s 
inclin€ | composition was unduly optimistic 
a skillfully avoided any attempt to 
but ith the railway problem and estimate 
deal W iditional liabilities which are in- 
the ble through it. He admitted that 
evita was a considerable trade balance 
fer’ t us to the United States but he 
aed that this was more than made up 
ere the balance in our favor from Great 
ior, ie here are critics who maintain 
Br ehete is no balance in our favor from 
eee Britain, but that the money due 
to Great Britain for military expenditures, 
interest On bonds and investments held 
‘here insurance premiums and _ other 
charges considerably exceeds the monies 
ayable to us by the mother country for 
food supplies and munitions. The facts 
of the matter will in due course become 


patent. 
In his peroration, Mr. Maclean de- 


that we might safely look to the 
pe with courage and fortitude and 
that our condition was happy in com- 
parigon with that of ‘the belligerent con- 
ditions in Europe. } 

Mr. MacMaster, the Liberal member 
for Brome, in Quebec, has taken Mr. 
Maclean’s place as Opposition financial 
critic, a great distinction for a new member. 
Mr. MacMaster, who looks much older 
than his 41 years , is a graduate of McGill 
and Edinburgh Universities, has a very 
good law practice in Montreal and has 
long been interested in progressive politics. 
He is a Liberal whose favorite political 
hero is John Bright and he possesses a 
fine grasp of social and economic problems. 
There are few more progressive minds in 
Canada and he also has a great natural 
advantage cf a free delivery and a good 
sense of humor. Mr. MacMaster agreed 
with the general tone of the budget as far 
as it increased taxation. He regretted 
that the tax on tea contained no rebates 
under the British preference and declared 
that the taxation of the poor was unduly 
increased. He had doubts. about Mr. 
Maclean’s theory of the balance of trade 
and maintained that the state of affairs 
put forth by the acting Finance Minister 
was unduly optimistic. The neglect to 


- take into account the railway liabilities 


put a false aspect upon the budget state- 
ment. He then launched into a severe 
criticism of the Government for not 
putting agricultural implements upon the 
free list and delivered a splendid and 
exhaustive argument in favor of this 
reform as a war measure, which excited 
applause, not only from the Opposition 


benches but from certain quarters on the. 


Unionist side.’ At the end of his speech he 
exhorted the Government to make pro- 
vision for a sinking fund to reduce gradual- 
ly the capital amount of our debt. Mr. 
MacMaster in his speech showed a fine 
grasp of economic principles but he would 
do well to read Mr. Asquith’s speeches 
and acquire the faculty of stating his 
Case In a shorter period than two and a 
half hours. 

He was followed by Sir Herbert Ames 
Who 1s not an inspiring personality. Sir 
Herbert and Mr. Cockshutt represent the 
ne flower of high protectionism in the 
Ouse and it was in full bloom in the 
Course of his speech. Mr. Turgeon, a 
French Liberal for New Brunswick, who 
not a fluent speaker in English, supported 
t. MacMaster’s plea for free implements 
i gave an interesting account of the war 
CHorts of the French-Acadians in New 


Brunswick. On Wednesday the debate 
was: resumed by Mr. Hume Cronyn of 
London, Ontario. Mr. Cronyn is a 
nephew of Edward Blake, which fact, 
while proud of, he considers to be a great 
disadvantage in public life, as it gives him 
a very high standard to live up to. He is 
head of several large financial corporations 
but has in his composition a strain of ideal- 
ism and broad-minded sympathies which 
Kastern financiers do not usually indulge 
in. He pointed out that while Great 
Britain has. managed to pay out of her 
current income, 17 per cent. of her war 
expenditures and the United States, 14 
per cent., in Canada we have only to daté, 
paid 11 per cent. and he strongly urged 
that an effort should be made to increase 
this. As Managing Director of the Huron 
and Irie Loan Company, Mr. Cronyn is 
well conversant with rural conditions and 
is far from sympathetic to a high tariff 
policy. He declared in his speech:— 
“The ideals which one carries, more or 
less dormant, perhaps, throughout life, 
have pictured a people deep-rooted in the 
soil, and a yeomanry, satistied, hardy and 
intelligent, who would carry on the great 
career of our race. Whether from preju- 
dice or other insufficient reason, my imagin- 
ation has never been greatly stirred by the 
appeal of huge industries and the cease- 
less whirr ot the wheels of commerce.” 
He was, however, prepared to wait until 
after the war for reforms of the tariff and 
advocated the appointment of a tariff 
commission to ascertiin the facts of the 
case. After him followed a series of 
members rising alternately from each 
side of the House. 


Mr. Blake, of Winnipeg, is a Con- 
servative-Unionist of sombre mien and 
still more sombre voice. ‘‘Le Devoir”’, 
says that he looks as if he had been born 
‘fon a wet day on low ground’’, but he, 
too, wanted more taxation and made an 
interesting statement of his friendly atti- 


tude towards Quebec. Mr. Manion of 


Fort William, put in a specious and 
decidedly foolish plea for bounties for 
ores. Mr. Reid, the independent from 
MacKenzie, Sask., who performed the fine 
feat of being elected against a candidate, 
endorsed both by Borden and Laurier, 


voiced the Western farmers’ urgent de- 


mand for the removal of the duty on 
agricultural implements, which Mr. Rich- 
ardson of Winnipeg, backed up. Mr. 
Richardson took a shot at the old Liberal 
party for its failure to live up to its tariff 
pledges and then seized the occasion to 
make a strong attack upon the Govern- 
ment for its fatal lassitude on the matter 
of the railways. He put down on Hansard 
a number of amazing facts which revealed 
a far worse state of affairs in regard to 
the Railway problem than most people 
dream of. 
Mr. Joseph Read, the ancient mariner 
from Prince Edward Island, also gave 


his usual harangue in which quotations 
from Burns were interspersed with dis-. 


courses upon the origin of the name 
“Bluenose’’ and the potato question. 
The Prince Edward Island members are 
always anxious to remove the stigma of 
smaliness from their province by insisting 
upon the importance of its grievances 
and problems and the House is being con- 
tinually treated to long monologues upon 
the necessity for urgent remedies to 
various ills which the unhappy Islanders 
labor under. On Thursday, Mr. Mac- 
Isaac, another member, took up nearly 
two hours of the House’s time with such 
a plea. Thereafter, Mr. D. D.Mac- 


wae 


Kenzie of Cape Breton, who is a venerable 
Liberal, deeply versed in the antiquarian 
history of party feuds in Canada, delved 
into ashes of the past for three hours and 
a_ half. _ The one interesting feature of 
his wearisome speech was a violent assault 
upon Sir Joseph Flavelle who is the 
favorite cockshy of every orator. He 
made a categoric charge that Sir Joseph, 
who is head of the Imperial Munitions 
Board, was awarding contracts to a con- 
cern in which he was personally interested 
and the Government so far have not seen 
fit to set up any one to refute the accusa- 
tion. Major Redman, of Calgary, followed 
him and took the line that the taxation 
proposals of the Government were far too 
mild and unsatisfactory as far as making 
good the principle of equality of sacrifice. 
It was a strangely radical speech for one 
who is said to be a strong Conservative. 
Major Redman has a pleasing appearance 
but his delivery is far from impressive,. 
and he lacks parliamentary , experience. 
Still he made an earnest plea for better 
treatment for the returned soldiers. and 
more drastic burdens upon the rich. The 
debate is still proceeding and there are 
apparently oceans of oratory to come. 
So far the Opposition have not moved 


‘any direct amendment to the budget in 


favor of free agricultural implements. 
They probably cherish the..hope that 
someone from the Government side will 
take the step. . 


The most noticeable recent development 
is the better state of affairs in Quebec. 
All reports agreed, General Mewburn 
publicly testified in the House, that the 
response of the Quebec people to war 
efforts has shown a marked improvement 
in the last month. Large numbers of 
young men are volunteering for the Royal 
Flying Corps and the Tank detachment 
and the young men called up under the 
new regulations of the Military Service 
Act are responding both promptly and 
cheerfully. ~- All talk of rioting and re- 
sistance has died down and there is an 
almost open enthusiasm for the war. 
The reasons for this pleasing change are 


various but the chief is that the Western . 


members have discovered that Ontario’s 
intolerance and arrogance was largely re- 
sponsible for Quebec’s lack’ of patriotic 
solidarity and have shown themselves full 
of sympathy and understanding towards 
the problem. The Quebec people who 
had previously felt that they were isolated 
from the rest of Canada and believed that 
the Military Service Act was designed 
solely to coerce them.now realize that 
there are many people in Canada who do 
not share the view of Ontario Orangeism 
and the French-Canadian nature is always 
ready to respond to sympathy. The 
desperate crisis of the war has also helped 
in the awakening. The rapprochement 
between the Quebec members and many 
of the Western Unionists has been most 
marked, even going the length of visits by 
the latter to Quebec members’ homes 
and bodes ill for the future sanctity of 
Toronto’s ark of the covenant, the high 
protectionist tariff. 

—‘‘ BYSTANDER.” 


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THEN GO TO 


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Production and Price 


> th is true that as much of our 
‘rain ae gees into bread to feed the people 
? 2 aici taad goes into beverages which 
give up and that the con- 


THE FOOD SITUATION 


_ 


By Will Holtmes 


ft hecar 


The matter is neither mute 
startling to the people of 2 


are accustomed to dealing wut ! 

train-loads. We are at the swiamue aif iztur 
duction and at this ema of the amau wh 
evidences of famine are singht. We din U 
see the process of Ctstrvbiatuwmn anc dui 
the grain thins out to am alatumnp exten 
by the time it reaches the oitlue side vi 
the world. It is an ease thm to oe 


7 MINT CMMtcisams <i the 


cynical and harsh tm ¢ 
Food Controller 
security should no 
possibilities of famine 
parts of the world. 
terror mistakes mus kes 
the blackest crimes passed over wit only 
one task devolves upon | t 
to feed the hungry. 


The hour in which te = 


of prevention is now. 
through the Food Controller hes hee 
very frank in telling the western fa 
that he must speed up production 
top notch. It is to be expected that 
western farmer will be very frank with the 
Government in order that any serious 
danger may be effectively averted. The 
purpose of this article is to suggest frankly 
to those concerned the seriousness of the 
situation and the necessity of drastic 
action with the single object in view of 
meeting the present crisis. 


ev ey 


4 


pr pr 


In pre-war days our great crime was 


waste. We had statistics to show that 
Canada could almost feed the world and 
that the state of Texas alone was producing 
enough to feed the United States if a 
proper system of distribution could be 
brought into force to eliminate waste. 
We saw grain left to rot, fruit sunk in the 
depths of the sea and fish buried in the 
earth to keep up prices while countless 
thousands starved. 

But to-day the sins of the past are 


‘being visited upon us with threatening 
terror. Millions of former producers have 
been transformed into wasters. The 
people who constitute the armies, navies, 
and munition workers of the world pro- 
duce only that which will kill, nothing that 
will keep alive. Vast areas formerly used 
for productive purposes are now battle- 
fields. So that war conditions have fixed 
themselves as a consuming parasite upon 
the earth’s productive forces until human- 
ity is threatened with a foe more terrible 
than Germany. 


Perhaps it is difficult to listen to the 
Food Controller while we are surrounded 
with plenty, but the situation is grave. 
Among the worst of all calamities is 
famine and for our extravagance now we 
may see Europeans dying by the wayside 
and little children feeding on the undigest- 
ed matter from the manure of animals as 
happened during the Indian famine. It 
is possible that our own crops may fail or 
be commandeered and we may be rationed 
until we feel the ‘‘belly pinch.” Produc- 
tion is a stern business and the farmer 
engaged in it has rights. 

We rightly demand the assurance that 
the fruits of our production are not being 
used for profits or any wasteful purposes, 
but are utilized as food. The West has 
been thonest in making sacrifices and the 
spirit of sacrifice should be universal. 
With unanimity we have denied ourselves 
the use of beverages which consume food- 


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stints 


aie iw ate ba 
{vey- rites | 


sugiamiuin of Liquor last year showed a 
nite! treeease over the year before we 
lipute on rygtnt to the assurance that our 
wheal, hguthew, sugar, molasses, etc., be 
aynacreed), thot because we are puritans, 
wri nwa omly because we want to defeat 
becatse we want to secure 


~ wpe rey Pra soar 
WTI, re & 


the werid agaist famine. 
‘i'r has had a sobering effect upon the 
pittecttes and they have come to the 
{ 


chat in respect to the one indispensable 
en y. wheat. The social structure 
has mot collapsed but it has been knocked 
he for we submit that to put a 
handicap on the producer of wheat when 

b is soaring in price and to leave all 
ther industries free to soar according to 
the law of supply and demand is to dis- 
courage the production of wheat while 
encouraging every other industry. We 
all admit the necessity of price regulation 
in wheat. We also admit that. under 
present conditions we are better off than 
we were before. We are profiteers. We 
welcome a limitation to our profiteering 
but if the world is to right itself a limita- 
tion should be put on all profiteering. 
Why limit the price of wheat and not the 
price of bread, of fruit, of labor, of horses, 
of lumber, of machinery, of boots, shoes 
and clothing ? When all necessary com- 
modities are subject to price regulation 
then all producers will be doing their bit 
as well as the farmer. 


Then again, no producer takes such a 
risk as the farmer. The Government is 
urging him to make a big gamble as a 
patriotic measure. But what if he loses ? 
If he is hailed, frozen or burnt out, or 
something happens to destroy his crop 
over which he has no control, what then ? 
The Government is not only requiring a 
big initial investment but is paying for 
the risk. Why not eliminate the risk to 
the farmer and save money? If wheat 
were 50c or even 75c less than it is the 
Government could not only provide the 
seed, supervise all farming operations, but 
could also guarantee to every farmer a 
crop payment,-say of 30 bushels to the 
acre, and in case of failure the entire 
amount could be paid with dockage to 
cover labor saved in harvesting. Some 
one more expert at insurance than the 
writer of this article could easily work out 


.a scheme that would greatly strengthen 


the position of the Empire and be a help 
to the Government as well as to the 
farmer. 


We refrain from discussion of the old 
‘bug-bear of the tariff on farm implements, 
etc. There never will be a satisfactory 
tariff arrangement until the Government 
becomes divorced from the private inter- 
ests concerned. We can only marvel at 
the conservatism of a government when 
the nation is dangling over the very hell 
of disaster. While the people do not 
hesitate to plunge with their lives in their 
hands the Government hesitates to sacri- 
fice a wealthy friend. We must free our- 
selves of this insane conservatism or we 
will find ourselves in a losing fight. 

Meantime let the spirit of a noble 
sacrifice characterize the people of Canada. 
Abstemiousness will make us a healthier 
race as well as assisting to stave off the 
greatest of all calamities, nothing to eat. 


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| LIFE AND WOR 


oF THE NEW SOCIAL 
SIGNS “" ORDER 


Article II. : 


To effect a change in our social 
system there must be an educated 
ublic opinion. Society must be con 
sidered as an active agent, analagous 
to the individual. Collective intel- 
figence is to society as the brain is 
to a person. ‘I hrough the processes 
of evolution the nervous system of 
the human animal has undergone a 
jong series of steps in integration, 
which has resulted in a conscious 
being, capable of self-direction. In 
4 similar manner the whole of society 
is gradually becoming socially con- 
scious through a corresponding in- 
tegration which will ultimately result 
‘n society directing itself consciously 
toward self-preservation and advance- 
ment. When society has arrived at 
complete consciousness it will act as 
a unit on matters ‘of vital importance, 
and all that is destructive to human 
well-being will be eliminated. 

The great catastrophe of a world 
war, surpassing in suffering and de- 
struction anything in human history, 
has awakened society, and pushed 
us on toward a collective conscious- 
ness through the irrepressible law of 
necessity. Many reforms advocated 
by the individual in pre-war days, 
and which were considered impracti- 
cable and anarchic by the masses, 
have been put into operation in the 
last three years of world crisis. 

We have thus been pried out of 
our ae conservative positions and 
are favorable to ‘‘new”’ adventures; 
we have been convinced that change 
is inevitable, that it is not the sign 
of death and destruction, but the 
ieake course of life and progress to 
change. 

Society could scarcely be so incom- 
prehensibly stupid as to fail to learn 
a valuable lesson from the impressive 
demonstration of the failure of our 
individualistic institutions under the 
test of collective service demanded by 
the war. We have learned by bitter 
experience that the function of in- 
stitutions is to serve society, and 
not to make profit for individuals, 
a will in future move collectively 
ess a social reconstruction in 
feping with this new discovery. 
_A number of our most important 
Institutions have utterly failed and 
ee = collapse of the individualis- 
of af em. All our ideas of politics, 
mle and ethics are in the 
tia dite ig and while those ideas of 
tp a and historic fame shrivel 
orient re our wondering gaze, we 

ourselves in the profound 


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conviction that truth will come out 
as gold, through the refining fire. 
The great centralized - industries 
of the nations that are indispensable 
to a nation’s life were the first to 
show signs of inefficiency. The banks, 
the means of transportation, and land 
monopoly, as profit-making institu- 
tions were shown to be incapable of 
serving the best interests of the 
nation. Accordingly steps were taken 
to secure government control of these 
in most of the countries at war. 
Great Britain took over the rail- 
roads, utilized the land of the land- 
lords, 4nd dictated terms to the 
banks. The movement is still toward 
government control, and ownership, 
and it is not probable that these 
industrial institutions will revert to 
private ownership after the war. 
Following this came a sudden 
change in social ethics. ‘‘Service”’ 
was substituted. for “profit’’ as the 
guiding star of activity. The rights 
of individuals to do business as usual 
began to be questioned, and people 
felt like excusing themselves for con- 
ducting businesses that were not 
primarily serviceable. Of course this 
is not universally true. Many busi- 
ness men of the old school are with 
us still, who continue to do business 
with the simple selfish idea of securing 
their own ends. ‘These will likely 
continue until death removes them 
as a stumbling block from before the 
feet of human progress. But when 
due allowance has been made for 
those who are still profiteering there 
remain many healthy signs of a higher 
ethical standard for our social life. 


Why is there so much talk to-day 
of excess profits? Why do the 
common people look with such con- 
tempt upon hog barons and munition 
rogues ? A few years ago this would 
have gone unnoticed, in truth would 
have been accounted proper business. 
As a matter of fact there may be less 
profiteering to-day than at any time 
in the last hundred years. The 
difference lies in our awareness of 
the injustice of it. Society is becom- 
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ing is opposed to the best interests 
of the collective whole, and hence 
making profit will be the greatest sin 
in the light of the new social ethics. 

Now is the time for courageous 
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7 
THE CHURCH AND LABOR 


A welcome innovation was introduced 
into the deliberations of the Presbyterian 
Synod of Alberta when J. H. Booth, Vice- 
President of the Calgary Trades and Labor 
Council, was invited to give an address 
on “The Church in Relation to the Labor 
Movement.” ; 

In outlining the aims and objects of 
organized labor, Mr. Booth stated that 
while the immediate problems to be tackled 
were the raising of the standard of living 
and improving the general conditions of 
labor, the movement is steadily aiming 
toward the abolition of the profit system, 
and the substitution of a system of pro- 
duction for use and co-operation. in dis- 
tribution, instead of competition with its 
great waste. The movement, he said, 
had been inspired by Christian ideals of 
love, service and self-sacrifice. © ; 

In criticizing the church for standing 
aloof from the problems that so vitally 
affect the masses of the people, Mr. Booth 
thought that too much time was taken 
up with sermons dealing with events 
which happened hundreds of years ago, 
and which in the nature of things could 
not have even a remote bearing on modern 
problems. Other-worldliness also came in 
for his condemnation, and he expressed 
the opinion that the church in neglecting 
to grapple with economic injustices was 
hopelessly out of touch with the spirit of 
the times, and consequently lesing its 
influence on humanity. 

This straight - from - theg shoulder talk 
made quite an impression and aroused con- 
siderable opposition. It was claimed by 
one speaker that Mr. Booth was trying to 
instruct the church in its duties (which in 
fact he really was. in a very diplomatic 
way) and this advice was not very welcome 
coming from a layman. Another speaker 
thought the function of the Church was to 
lead men to God and had nothing to do 
with economics. This attitude is perhaps 
the greatest stumbling block in the way 
of co-operation between the Church and 
organized labor. It is based on the 
fallacy that moral and spiritual develop- 
ment has nothing whatever to do with 
material conditions, but by some myster- 
ious exercise of will power can flourish 
under the most adverse social conditions. 
In criticising Mr. Booth’s remarks an- 
other cleric charged that the Labor move- 
ments had spurned the help of the Church 
as arbitrator in industrial disputes in the 
past and charged them with being intoler- 
ant. 

Mr. Booth, in reply, pointed out that 
the church had never by its attitude 
shown an unbiased mind but always in 
such matters took it for granted that the 
workers’ demands were unreasonable, and 
consequently invariably sided with capital. 


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ever, there is undoubtedly a 

the part of some of the Poun ke aa On 
radical thinkers in the Church to res More 
the necessity of a complete change eBnize 
methods adopted in the past ead the 
Booth gave them credit for the saat! 
such men as Dr. Salem Bland, Rey of 
pet and ae Wm. Irvine, ”  W. 

e very life of the Church d 

its awakening to the needs of then 
and the mere fact that Mr. Booth a 
invited to speak on such a subject shone 
that a feeling exists, at least ip oie 
quarters, that all is not well between the 
Church and the common people. 4 


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April; if there is plenty of moisture and 
warmth in May, as now seems probable 
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pditor, NON-PARTISAN. 


UE ee ts Seth, gst 
DG rateful as it is in this Western country 


ole familiar classical quotation 
age fe that famous line of Byron’s 
a er ning the filial relative of a female of 
the canine species, the writer, on noting 
- vour issue of the 26th ulto., under the 
eee “The Woman of the Future,’’ 


a , 
Se apHion to Shakespeare of the 
ramous eulogy of the so-called fair sex, 


from “Marmion,” could but ejaculate, 


“Great Scott!” : 
This, too, in a paper edited by a com- 


atriot of Sir Walter’s, and in an article 
written, if the idiom does not mislead me, 
by another Scot. : 

Times have surely changed since— 
“Milton, Dryden, Pope, alike forgot, 
“Resigned their hallowed bays to Walter 

Scott,’’ 
if the NON-PARTISAN is now to be per- 
mitted to snatch those same bays from 
the brow of the wizard of the North, and 
plant them on the 'bald pate of Will of 
Avon. 

But, Sir, as an Englishman, I protest. 
We Southrons have to answer for most of 
the sins of the British nation, but there 
are limits to the things we can allow to 
be laid at our door, amongst such, Scotch 
whisky, bagpipes, Harry Lauder, and 
above all, Scotch ‘‘poesy.’’ Our national 
bard occasionally wrote nonsense, as what 
poet has not, but never, never, never, never, 
(well hardly ever) did he descend to 
doggerel. 

‘If your contributor is anxious for 
‘Sweet Will’s’’ views on the question of 
women’s rights, I would refer him to the 
closing scene of the ‘‘Taming of the 
Shrew.” — 
“Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband: 
And when she’s froward, peevish, sullen, 
sour, 
And, not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she but a foul contending rebel, 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? 
Iam ashamed, that women are so simple 
To offer war, when they should kneel for 
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When hey are bound to serve, love and 
oO ey.”’ 


This, while good poetry, is poor enough 
precept, but it must be remembered that 
Shakespeare but reflected the opinion of 
his time, and the above pretty correctly 
states the views currently held in the 
England of the sixteenth century. In 
this matter, as in many others, if one 
may judge by the recent debate at Ottawa, 
some of our wise men in the East are at 
about the same stage, in this twentieth 
century, as the old country reached some 
three hundred years ago. 

Yours truly, 


; —W. Poock. 
“Wayfarer”? humbly acknowledges his 


“literary lapse” and must plead guilty to | 


the tendency now and again, when memory 
fails, to blame it on “ Will.” 
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PRIVATE PROPERTY 

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nine-tenths of the population, and its 
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To take Effect on, 
from and after May 
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Every person attending an exhibition, 
performance or entertainment at a place 
of amusement to which an entrance of 
admission fee is charged shall on each 
admission thereto pay an amusement tax 
at the following rates: 


(1) _When the price of admission is 
from 10c to 20c inclusive, a tax of Ic. 

(2) When the price of admission is 
more than 20c and not more than 75c, 
a tax of 2%c. : 


(3) When the price of admission is 
more than 75c and not more than $1.00 
a tax of 5c. 


(4) When the price of admission 
is more than $1.00 but not. more than 
$2.00, a tax of 10c. 


(5) When the price of admission is 
more than $1.00 but not more than 
$2.00, a tax of 10c. 


(5) When the price of admission is 
more than $2.00, a tax of. 25c. 
(6) A tax of 25c shall be paid by 


every person attending any boxing 
bouts or contests. 


(7) Where admission is given by 
pass ot complimentary tickets a tax 


shall be payable at the highest rate 


vharged for the performance to which 
admission is granted. 


PENALTIES 


Every person who, without having pre- 
viously paid the tax provided by this Act, 
enters a place of amusement in the province 
for the purpose of attending an exhibition, 
performance, entertainment or game shall 
be liable, on summary conviction, to a 
penalty of not more than $50.00 for each 
offence, and in default of the payment of 
the fine and costs, to imprisonment fo 
not more than six months. fn 


\ 


Every owner of a place of amusement. 


and every employee of an owner of a place 
of amusement who permits or authorizes 
or is a party or. privy to the admission 
of any person to a place of amusement for 
the purpose of attending an exhibition, 
performance, entertainment or game there- 


‘' in without payment of the tax provided -~ 


for by this Act, shall be liable, on sum- 


mary conviction, to a penalty of not less 


than $25.00, nor more than $200.00 for 
each offence, and, in default of paymen 
of the fine and costs, to imprisonment 
for not more than six months. 
Ek. TROWBRIDGE, 
Deputy Provincial Secretary. 


Edmonton, April 15th, 1918. 


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